Something to talk about: assessing and addressing elders' health literacy [0.03%]
有关老年人健康素养的评估与应对措施探讨
Joanne Kaldy
Joanne Kaldy
Pharmacists need to understand their patients' health literacy and their ability to comprehend and use information about their care and treatments. Too often, practitioners use medical jargon and terms, and patients are too embarrassed or i...
Caren McHenry Martin
Caren McHenry Martin
All nursing facilities in the United States are required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to maintain a quality assurance and assessment committee to discuss issues related to quality of care. Pharmacists participating in the...
The consultant pharmacist provides consultation and recommendations for a medical patient [0.03%]
临床药师对住院患者的药学服务咨询
Esther Y Kim,Amber Ng,Timothy V Nguyen
Esther Y Kim
This case focuses on a general medical patient who resides in a local senior community-housing center and who has multiple comorbid diseases that are commonly seen in practice. The patient's past medical history includes coronary artery dis...
Safety and tolerability of galantamine SA in dementia patients transitioned from donepezil [0.03%]
从多奈哌齐换药的痴呆患者使用石南甘碱缓释片的安全性和耐受性
Michael H Rosenbloom,Jeanne Brown,Dan R Berlowitz et al.
Michael H Rosenbloom et al.
Objective: To demonstrate the safety and tolerability of galantamine SA in dementia patients transitioned from donepezil. Design: One g...
Evaluation of the effectiveness of cholecalciferol in long-term care elderly patients with hypovitaminosis D [0.03%]
评估胆钙化醇治疗长期护理机构维生素D缺乏老年人的有效性
Maria Shin,Christina Minden
Maria Shin
Objective: To study the efficacy and safety of cholecalciferol (vitamin D3) 2,000 units daily for 12 weeks in elderly patients with hypovitaminosis D. Secondarily, to postulate causes for those patients who did not return...
Caren McHenry Martin
Caren McHenry Martin
As both the number and complexity of patients receiving health care at home continues to increase, there is also a growing need for pharmacists to oversee these patients' medication regimens. This article describes the practice of one pharm...
Guido R Zanni,Jeannette Y Wick
Guido R Zanni
Telomeres are DNA sequences that cap the ends of chromosomes, protecting them from fraying and fusing together during replication. During replication, telomeres lose some of their genetic material but are repaired by the ribonucleoprotein t...
A pilot study of pharmacist medication regimen reviews for long-term care residents [0.03%]
长期照护居民的药剂师用药回顾试点研究
Kate Choiniere,Joy B Plein,Holly Whitcomb Henry
Kate Choiniere
Current legislation requires pharmacist medication regimen reviews (MRRs) for residents of nursing facilities, but not for adult family homes or assisted living facilities. However, residents living in adult family homes and assisted living...
Dawn S Knudsen Gerber
Dawn S Knudsen Gerber
Parkinson's disease is a complicated disease state that affects patients' quality of life. The first monoamine oxidase (MAO-B) inhibitor for PD, selegiline (Eldepryl), was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1996, and rasa...
Evaluation of osteoporosis risk assessment in veterans receiving androgen-deprivation therapy [0.03%]
评估接受雄激素剥夺治疗的老兵的骨质疏松风险评估效果
Valerie D&#x;Alesio,Brent E Salvig,T Neal Fourakre
Valerie D&#x;Alesio
Objective: To identify whether veterans receiving androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) are screened at any time by bone mass measurement. Design: ...